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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Accept Do Favorable Judge King Men Pope Power Presumption Unlike Wrong
In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Socialism means slavery.
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